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...Bell, Sloan finally had the in-house ally she needed, and under House rules formally filed a CREW-drafted com-plaint in June 2004. Eventually, the Ethics Committee unanimously admonished the majority leader--an early sign of the troubles that led to DeLay's resignation and an achieve- ment Sloan counts as "the thing I'm most proud...
...Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, is not surprised by the harsh punishment faced by Thomas and Bowser. “Increasingly, we’ve seen very stringent penalties for copyright related law-breaking,” he says. “The entertain-ment industry has been quite aggressive.” The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has enthusiastically endorsed the in-dictment. “Everyone who participates in the creation of music is especially gratified by this prosecution,” writes RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol...
...head of the governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is already eyeing the 2007 presidential elections, is gunning for the hard-right voters of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. If so, he'll have to contend with his own government first. Justice Minister Pascal Clément noted that "the law, all of the law, was respected" in the prisoner's early release, and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin lectured that "nothing should put in question the independence of the judiciary." For his part, the judge in question accused Sarkozy of "demagoguery," and the Superior Council...
...Europe, the U.S. and Australia), the track looks set to top the British singles chart this week, a first for a ring tone. That "might be a little embarrassing" for Coldplay, admits HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, but it's a hit with Jamster!, the Berlin-based mobile-phone entertain- ment firm that's already earned millions in Crazy Frog ring-tone sales. Jamster!, which is owned by U.S. software firm VeriSign, receives a slice of sales of the CD single, due for release in France this week. Will ring tones soon regularly outsell rock stars? Do the French like frogs...
...CONVICTED. LYNNE STEWART, 65, veteran civil rights lawyer and defender of accused terrorists and Mob turncoats, of providing material support to terrorists, perjury and defrauding the U.S. govern-ment; in New York City. For more than 10 years, Stewart was defense counsel for Egyp-tian cleric and convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. Prosecutors argued that Stewart acted as a conduit through which Sheik Rahman communicated with his followers. Stewart claimed the gov-ernment's videotaping of her conversations with her client violated attorney-client privilege...